Bush's first campaign ad

[Vern Gagne 0]

seriously... fuck Bush... I cant wait till November when his dumb ass gets knocked out of the presidential chair so Kerry or Edwards is on it... or somebody else... I dont care

You certainly changed my mind.

[Vern Gagne 0]

:sigh: The US government are contracting out the work to rebuild Iraq (after they bombed it to hell). They are using the money gained from the Oil in Iraq, that they have control of, to pay for these contracts. The war, or illegal invasion I should say, was a con. To rub salt into the wounds, the vast majority of companies to gain from this are American: one in particular is Haliburton.

All this from Bushisevil.com

 

American companies are getting a majority of the contracts after a US led invasion and liberation of Iraq occured. Companies, like Haliburton have worked with the gov't for years. No use wasting time sorting bid after bid, when you have companies that have done this kind of work before.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

seriously... fuck Bush... I cant wait till November when his dumb ass gets knocked out of the presidential chair so Kerry or Edwards is on it... or somebody else... I dont care

You certainly changed my mind.

your welcome

[Justice 0]

The problem, is not that Dick Cheney was the CEO of Haliburton, but that he received $20 million dollars as a "going away" present before running for VP... and to quote Lewis Black "if big oil gave anyone here $20 million dollars, you'd be thrilled to be big oils bitch! And the first time someone pumped your gas, you'd be so excited that you'd probably blow 'em"

He got that because he was forced to cut all connections with them: He wasn't allowed to keep his stock in them (Because of Conflict of Interest and all that), so they had to give him a going-away package. It's not all that surprising. What would you expect him to do: Sell all his stock and leave without a cent? What's the point of leaving then? I mean, seriously, you expect him to give up all his investments in a company for nothing?

 

And, to be frank, "The Daily Show", while fucking hilarious, isn't exactly a great source to find material from.

 

And yes, Dick Cheney played a major deciding factor in all of this. It's a fact that Cheney is the most powerful vice president this nation has ever had, and the most influential vice president since Nixon, and when signs are pointing to a war that in my opinion revolved around oil under the guise of "defending freedom", then it's natural to question the motives of the biggest oil whore in the government

 

This means absolute shit. There's no proof at all that he had any hand in this or any involvement at all outside of his prior affliation with the company. If they only got the job because of Cheney, how did they get it in 1990 during the FIRST Gulf War? Could have been because they could do the job? And couldn't that have influenced the military's decision to give them the job here?

 

:sigh: The US government are contracting out the work to rebuild Iraq (after they bombed it to hell). They are using the money gained from the Oil in Iraq, that they have control of, to pay for these contracts. The war, or illegal invasion I should say, was a con. To rub salt into the wounds, the vast majority of companies to gain from this are American: one in particular is Haliburton.

 

... Do you have ANY material that proves ANY of this? If we are paying for this with Iraqi Oil money, why is it still showing up on our fucking budget? Moron...

[Guest MikeSC]

:sigh: The US government are contracting out the work to rebuild Iraq (after they bombed it to hell). They are using the money gained from the Oil in Iraq, that they have control of, to pay for these contracts. The war, or illegal invasion I should say, was a con. To rub salt into the wounds, the vast majority of companies to gain from this are American: one in particular is Haliburton.

They're improving Iraq. The country is better now than it ever was. They've improved the infrastructure and made necessary improvements (satellite dishes are now legal; the internet is unrestricted, etc.).

 

It is not cheap. We have handled the oil money from Iraq MUCH better than the disastrous UN "Oil for Food" policy.

 

And, Haliburton is a widely respected company that has done quality work for years now. There is no better country on Earth to do it.

-=Mike

[Guest thebigjig]

I have things to do today so I can't reply to the debate in full right now, but I just wanted to comment that I did not get that comment from the Daily Show... I got it from Lewis Black's standup act, and he is my favorite stand up comedian... and I wasn't using him a source, I was using it because he said something funny that I happen to agree with